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  • From: Owsley lucy <boulderbelt AT embarqmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Raspberries Problems
  • Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:57:06 -0400


We have a lot of our 4 year old raspberry canes dying. We suspect cane borers, though in one area they have never done well and that may be due to black walnuts being in the vicinity in the past 25 years (there are none there now but the raspberries are within 30' of a wooded area that probably does have such-we don't know because our neighbors have made it clear we are not to trespass on their land). The symptoms are in early spring healthy plants and now that is is late spring and the plants are producing berries we have wilt, leaves curling up and dropping off and eventually the canes dying back to the ground. this is happening in certain parts of the area and not other parts (most of the plants are healthy, but fewer than last year so whatever this is seems to be slowly spreading). 

What should we do? We are  organic (not certified) so using synthetics is out. Are we looking at digging up the area and starting over again elsewhere on the farm? What do we look for for borers, the books we have are rather vague about this. the variety is Latham, BTW. We also have Heritage of the same age which has no such problems. 


Lucy Goodman
Boulder Belt Eco-Farm
Eaton, OH






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